William L. Kilmer Professor Emeritus 142C Marston Hall University of Massachusetts 130 Natural Resources Rd Amherst, MA 01003-9293 Telephone: (413) 545-0672 email: kilmer@ecs.umass.edu

B.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1954; M.S., 1955; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1958

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neural nets. Wavelets.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• "A Thalamo-Cortical Model of the Executive Attention System", Biological Cybernetics, 84, 279-289 (2001).
• "Self-Repairing Processor Modules,"IEEE Trans. Reliability, Vol. 44, June, 1995.
• "Global Inhibition for Selecting Modes of Attention," Neural Networks, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 567-573, 1996.
• "A Command Computer for Complex Autonomous Systems,"Neurocomputing, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 47-59, 1997.
• "Reaching Agreement Among Randomly Interacting Agents: Brain Models, Schemas, and Unitary Responses", J. of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 9, No. 3-4, pp 183-197, 1999

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: New York Academy of Sciences

HONORS & AWARDS: None.

INSTITUTIONAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: · Preparation of several new graduate courses involving new interactive Matlab and other software for neural networks, adaptive filters, wavelets and signal processing, and fuzzy logic. I gave new Department courses in all of these areas.

 

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